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Friday Night in San Francisco is an excellent CD because it showcases three musicians with totally different styles, training and musical backgrounds playing each other's music. Well thought out and executed.

I am pleased to see others here agree that Paco de Lucia should be on the list.

That was interesting, throughout the years I've seen several of these list and although I'm not sure how this was comprised the last list I saw had Angus Young as #5 and this one has him at 24. On Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists Kirk Hammett of Metallica was ranked 11th. I went back around 30 and couldn't find him.

I kind of hate any sort of list like this. There are great musicians that are great in their own way, and trying to claim one is 'greater' than the other gets silly pretty fast.

I have seen a list of classical guitarists somewhere. It lists them alphabetically, so as not to attempt to rank them in any way.

Seriously, I have found that I like different guitarists performing different pieces. Even a magnificent musician may simply have a "bad hair day", right? And then, a lesser known musician may spend a lot of time to practice a particular piece, such that it becomes his masterpiece.

Thanks to youtube, I have found for myself several guitarists whose performance of a particular composition would move me emotionally more than other much better known musicians. I have posted one such youtube video a while back: it was Jim Greeninger performing Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Memories of Alhambra). Same as other wonderful guitar pieces, just close your eyes and you are transported to different beautiful Spanish landscapes. Or if you have not been there, it makes you want to surf the Web looking for a cheap ticket to that locale.

I just checked and the view count of Jim's above performance has gone up to near 3 million. Jim deserves to be heard!

__________________"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky

All very, very good, but this looks a little too Boomer-centric to me. It's as if the suggestion is that all the greatest guitar work took place in the '60s and '70s. Much of it did, but *this* much?

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Maybe these lists should be separated by genre, then you are comparing apples to apples. It seem that on the RS list they made sure to include the lead guitarist from every modern RnR group. If it wasn't for Les Paul most of the people on the list wouldn't have been able to plug their insturments in and play. IMO Les Paul was "the" guitarist of all time.

A list of favorites is one thing; a list of "best" has to include some objective criteria for judging; i.e. abilities on acoustic and electric, single note leads, arpeggios, chording, range (of styles), fingerpicking/flatpicking, alternate tunings... And, of course, creativity, which is more subjective, but, for instance, many guitarists can play "like" Hendrix, but he did it first.

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